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Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 20 cm
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Kareem Haddad of Damascus, Syria, never dreamed of becoming a graffiti artist. But when a group of boys from another town tag subversive slogans outside their school, and another boy is killed while in custody, Kareem and his friends are inspired and start secretly tagging messages of freedom around their city.
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2005].
Physical Desc
386 pages : maps ; 21 cm
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At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered...
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Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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Danko, Zirka, and Fabian live peacefully in the small town of Rondo, a magical and joyful place where even the flowers sing! Everything is perfect... until the fateful day that War arrives. Having never experienced War, the inhabitants don't know what to do. They try to talk to it and fight it, but nothing seems to stop the spread of War's destruction and darkness. Harnessing the power of light, community, and song, Danko, Zirka, and Fabian, along...
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Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
384 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
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Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and seven-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S., where she is separated from her mother.
6) Prodigy
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June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.
7) Outlander
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (115 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A man from another world crash lands on Earth during the age of the Vikings.
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"On a freezing night in January 1941, a little Jewish girl is found on the steps of an apartment building in Bucharest. With Romania recently allied with the Nazis, the Jewish population is in grave danger, undergoing increasingly violent persecution. The girl is placed in an orphanage and eventually adopted by a wealthy childless couple who name her Natalia. As she assimilates into her new life, she all but forgets the parents who were forced to...
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In 1937, Lisette Roux and her husband, André move from Paris to Provence to care for André's grandfather, Pascal. Pascal was a pigment salesman and frame maker, and a friend of Pissarro and Cézanne who traded frames for paintings. When war breaks out, André hides Pascal's art collection to keep the paintings out of the Nazi's reach before he himself goes off to the front. Then, as the Germans come closer and set up the Vichy government, Lisette...
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"A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. South Sudanese translator William connects the corpse tothe sudden disappearance of cook Layla, a northern nomad with whom he's fallen in love. Meanwhile, Sudanese American filmmaker Dena struggles to connect to her unfamiliar homeland, and white midwestern...
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Bold, reckless Nina Markova grows up on the icy edge of Soviet Russia, dreaming of flight and fearing nothing. When the tide of war sweeps over her homeland, she gambles everything to join the infamous Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on Hitler's eastern front. But when she is downed behind enemy lines and thrown across the path of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, Nina must use all her wits to survive....
12) Essex dogs
Author
Series
Essex dogs trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
455 pages.
Description
July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and men-at-arms led by a battle-scarred captain whose best days are behind him. The fight for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe has begun. Heading ever deeper into enemy territory toward Crécy, this band of brothers knows they are off to fight a battle that will forge nations, and shape the very fabric of human lives....
13) The absolutist
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In September 1919, Tristan Sadler travels to Norwich to deliver some letters to the sister of a man he fought beside in World War I, but the real reason for his visit is the need to unburden himself of his wartime experiences.
14) Yara's spring
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Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
298 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Description
Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in East Aleppo, Yara s childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara s doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family s home, she emerges to a changed world.
15) The Rebels
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Series
Kent family chronicles (John Jakes) volume 2
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Description
-- New York Times The engrossing follow-up to The BastardThis ebook features an illustrated biography of John Jakes including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
17) Grey bees
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"Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two residents remain: retired safety inspector turned beekeeper Sergey Sergeyich and Pashka, a rival from his schooldays. With little food and no electricity, under constant threat of bombardment, Sergeyich's...
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Publisher
Abrams Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Description
Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Korean War correspondent Marguerite Higgins, who risked her life in dangerous situations to provide eyewitness accounts of many of the major events of the war.
20) Abejas grises
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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
412 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
En Malaia Starogradovka, un pueblo de apenas tres calles en la zona gris de Ucrania, la tierra de nadie disputada en 2014 entre las fuerzas ucranianas y los separatistas prorrusos, solo quedan dos residentes: Serguéi Sergueich, inspector de seguridad retirado convertido en apicultor, y Pashka Jmelenko, amigo y rival suyo desde sus días de escuela. Sin electricidad, con poca comida y con la constante amenaza de los bombardeos, el único placer que...
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